Stove-lid



(N0. Model.)

A. B. LIPSEY. STOVBLID.

No. 426,190. Patented Apr 22, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREXV B. LIPSEY, OF EST HOBOKEN, NEXV JERSEY.

STOVE-LID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,190, dated April22, 1890.

Application filed December 4, 1889. $eria1 No. 332,571. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW B. LIPsEY, of West Hoboken, in the county ofHudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Stove-Lids, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to lids which are used with cooking-stoves.Usually these consist of a bridge-lid and two circular pot-hole lids.These lids are liable to become overheated and to not only suffer damagein consequence thereof, but to entail damage upon articles placed uponthem.

The object of my improvementis to pre- V vent stove-lids from becomingunduly heated;

and to this end the improvement consists in a construction whereby acirculation of airis afforded between the lid and a plate secured to theunder side of the lid and engaging with ribs which vary in projectionfrom the lid.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the top of the stovehavinglids constructed in accordance with my improvement. Fig. 2 is avertical longitudinal section thereof, taken at the plane of the dottedline cc :0, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section of one of thelids, taken at the plane of the dotted line am, Fig. 1. Fig. at isavertical section of a portion of one of the lids, taken in a plane atright angles to that of Fig. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, butillustrating a'lnodified construction.

Similar letters and numerals of reference designate corresponding partsin all the figures.

A designates a stove of ordinary construction having a fire-pot a and aflue to extending laterally from the fire-pot just below the top of thestove and communicating with a flue 6 that communicates with apipe aleadin g to a chimney.

b O D designate lids fitted to the top of the stove. The lid 13 is madein the form of a bridge-lid, and the lids O D are round lids. These lidsare set into the recesses formed in the top of the stove, the lids O Dbeing also set'in recesses in the bridge-lid B. These lids may be ofordinary construction, excepting that they are provided with passagesthrough which air may circulate from above the top of the stove into thefine a. As here shown, each lid has extending across its under side ribs0" N, which decrease in projection toward the ends and terminate at themarginal ribs or flanges Z) c d, with which the lids are, as usual,provided. These ribs 0* 0' have fitted to them plates 1), which lap overthe edges of said ribs, and are so shaped longitudinally as toconformgto the varying projection of the ribs. These plates extend tothe marginal flanges Z) e (Z; hence they, in conjunction with thesemarginal flanges and the ribs 0' r form duets or passages through whichair may circulate. Between the pairs of ribs 0' r and near one end ofthem the lids are provided with holes h. These afford provision for theinsertion of a litter and also allow the entrance of air from above thetop of the stove.

a. The plates 19 may be secured by screws 8,

passing through their central portions and entering hubs or bosses 1),formed on the under side of the lids.

In the construction shown in Fig. 4 the plates 19 have side flanges 1 2,which fit inside of the ribs r 0' butin the construction shown in Fig. 5the lateral portions of the plates 1) have in their upper edges grooves3 at, which fit the edges of the ribs 0* r 7 I do not wish to berestricted to making an air-duct in a lid in precisely the mannerdescribed, although that is a very efficient way of providing for aduct.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination of a stove-lid having a hub and ribs on its under side,the ribs decreasing in projection toward the ends, and a plate lappingover the edges of the ribs and conforming longitudinally to the varyingproj ection thereof, the said plate being secured to the hub and havingflanges to fit against the ribs, the lid and the plate having a passagefor air, substantially as specified.

ANDREW B. LIPSEY.

Witnesses:

S. O. EDMONDS, (J. R. FERGUSON.

